I adore the internet. All I have to do is tweet that there aren’t enough games that cause me to shout, “Out of the way, duck!” and into my email comes another game that makes me shout, “Out of the way, duck!” And it prominently features poo. It’s like my birthday, Christmas and a royal wedding all rolled into one. It’s called Icarus Proudbottom In: The Curse Of The Chocolate Fountain, and it’s about a man propelled through the air by an unstoppable spray of shit from his bottom. Dodging birds.

And they say games are immature?! Take your BioShocks and your Deus Exes, and put them just behind my little pixel figure showering butt juice across the world. The opening dialogue in this epic is my favourite ever:

“Holy wow! I can’t stop making boom booms out of my bottom!”

I don’t see Chris Avellone or Ragnar Tørnquist offering that sort of poetic prose. You get two lives, the first time you hit a bird causing you to lose all your clothes, then second time, death.

It’s 20MB, it features a spirit owl as a guide, and it’s your reason for owning a PC. Huge thanks to Bas for the tip.

I’m fairly sure this was linked to here last August (but I don’t know how to search by date), so I’m going to make a pre-emptive gypsey firsties curse on all the people who are about to say ‘old’ by saying ‘poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop’.

What do you mean these days? you keep speaking in the past tense as if white dog poo is no longer available. I know neither of us has seen it in a long time, but I don’t think we need to move it to mythological status just yet.

I actually got attacked by a duck once. I was on a school trip to a bird park and I got too close to a herd of baby ducklings. Next thing I knew the mother duck had attached herself to my elbow and I started flapping my arms and running around in a circle. All the onlookers just laughed as I was being savaged. True story – you don’t forget something like that.

This was great, but somewhat marred by the final battle for me. Having three irritating bits where you are in no danger, then one tricky bit, then attacking your enemy, and repeating that cycle three times, was not quite thought through in my opinion. I almost gave up, which would have been a shame.

I don’t think the final boss was intended to be hard. For the lasers just do what you did before and then when he glows and does the nearly screen filling laser just go to the opposite side of the screen. When he starts shooting balls you just sit in the bottom right of the screen.

Whoa, hey, wow, I casually head over the RPS and there’s an article about the game I made! Thanks for the mention, this is totally unexpected since I made the game around 6 months ago.

We made this entire game in one month as part of the Something Awful game competition, and due to the time constraints a lot of features I wanted to include were cut. We’re working on an unrelated new game right now called “Star Gods,” which is a metroidvania that takes place in space. Once that game’s complete, we’re going to release it in a bundle with an updated and hopefully-much-improved Icarus Proudbottom (“Turbo HD Remix”), which should have a lot of difficulty fixes, new enemies, and generally a higher level of polish.

Once Star Gods is finished I’d love to make a new game starring Icarus and Jerry… I have a concept in mind in which he is now a starship captain. Stay tuned!

The game is too difficult, I apologize… when you make a game, you spend so much time playtesting it that you completely forget how hard it is for someone who’s never tried it before. That being said, stay at the top during the goose part.

Star Gods takes place in a totally unrelated universe. You play as a really lame set of villains who always get their asses kicked, kind of like Team Rocket (or any villain from a 90s cartoon).

I don’t mean to break your heart or anything, but I don’t think the next Icarus Proudbottom game will feature poops at all. I’m sorry, but I just can’t let myself make another game all about poops. That can’t be my legacy. The real question is – what is funnier than poops?…

Really enjoyed that. I thought the dialogue was really good and kept thinking “this is amazing/clever” throughout it. I expected to just play for a couple of minutes and be bored with it, but I really wanted to read more lines and see what happened next. Plus killing the ducks was fun. Really surprised at how good this was. I’m not interested in an HD remix but I’m not interested in those in general.

I played Space Funeral this week and can see why it was on the 25 games of Christmas last year, but if the hivemind had known about this sooner it should have made it instead. It’s celebratory in the way games like World of Goo and Just Cause are.